New low, Austin police arrest Santa.

In case this wasn't clarified before, the officers were not APD (Austin Police Department) officers, they were Texas State Troopers... state police.
The area and much of downtown Austin is state property which is under the jurisdiction of the DPS, not APD. Also, these troopers were no strangers to
Santa and friends. Occupy Austin showed them to be ignorant fools a while back when it came to laws concerning freedom of speech on the capital
grounds and they still haven't gotten over it.

First the state troopers said there was NO FREE SPEECH ANYWHERE at all on the state capitol grounds:

Then, they changed things and said one can have free speech, but one cannot be on the capitol grounds for more than 3 hours in any 24 hour period or
you'll be arrested:

Finally, after Occupy Austin did some research with their lawyers and confronted the troopers with the truth (and their superiors told them to
comply), the troopers had to eat crow.... and they are still mad about it:

this is really sad. The police didn't even arrest him in a legal fashion. They're supposed to tell you why and tell you your rights. and if you
arrest one guy then why not everyone? really glad my tax dollars are spent on this(sarcasm)

Why was the guy with the backpack arrested? anyone know? I think Santa was arrested to keep the prison population up high due to said population being
hired out to local companies as cheap labor to keep profits high for said local companies.

Another point, why is it the police waited around until Santa's three hours were up, then arrest him? the season of goodwill? any decent person would
have warned Santa his three hours were nearly up. and warn him to move on?

Nice to see the Police scum are in the holiday spirit! Arresting Santa claus! Exactly how low can these power mad totalitarian ass clowns go? I will
tell you this said Police lucifer just put themself on the on the naughty list for life!

I hope someone gives them a lump of Coal in there stocking right over there nut and a kick in the chestnuts for good measure!

I'm still confused, does dressing up as santa make you immune to any laws that other protestors are supposed to follow? Is this what we will have in
the future now... People ready to protest without following codes and ordinances set out by cities, dressing up as children's characters so they
elicit emotional responses from Joe Public?

that's not the point...people are smart, and when they see the police that instead of going after bad guys TRYING TO HARM US, arresting a santa for
helping kids have fun drawing with chalk on concrete that harms absolutely no one.
and yes....dressing up as santa and helping little kids draw pictures with harmless chalk on a concrete sidewalk while parents are there to supervise,
and nobody gets hurt and no property gets destroyed should be immune TO ANY LAWS!!!...what's wrong with you?

Originally posted by SubTruth
So occupy Austin released this video. I knew something was wrong with all of this and this is cold hard proof. How low will the liberals go to
push a agenda? They will use children and Santa.

Heck I bet most of them hate Religion and everything it stands for. But that will not stop them from using it to gain support with all the sheep in
the flock.

How does it feel to be played for a fool? Everything is not as it seems. Question everything even if it is something that is for your
cause.......Question everything.

Also where is the OP? You started a thread saying this was a new low and then sit back and collect flags.

The only new low I see is with
occupy Austin and this thread.

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I'm no fan of the Occupy a Shower Stall Sometime movement, but staged or not, he got arrested for writing words on concrete with a temporary medium.
It wasn't paint, or ink, but chalk.

If you would like to see Austin Police Dept's pathetic attempt to put an undercover female into the Occupy Austin group, watch this video. It gets
interesting at the 7:00 mark. Look at the woman who is huddled around the other cops at the patrol car, then sits down and acts like she can play the
guitar (super-bad), then watch how she acts towards the man filming..... and how she backs down when the other cops tell her to. This is so bad it's
funny.

Originally posted by pikestaff
Another point, why is it the police waited around until Santa's three hours were up, then arrest him? the season of goodwill? any decent person would
have warned Santa his three hours were nearly up. and warn him to move on?

From all the stories I've read, they were warned on many other occasions. They used the kids and Santa suit because they know they're followers
aren't so bright.

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